Social engineers aspiring to construct totalitarianism starting with impressionable children won’t stop at destroying the family. Close friendships also threaten to undermine utopia, because all of us must be the same and interchangeable, and our only loyalty must be to The State. Consequently, students at a preschool in Massachusetts are forbidden to have a best friend:

Pentucket Workshop Preschool’s “best friend” policy is being blasted by a parent who says her daughter got upset after reportedly being told by a teacher she couldn’t use the term because it could make other students feel excluded.

The appalled parent got a letter from Pentucket’s director, who will continue discouraging the concept.

“It has been our experience (which spans decades) that the use of the term ‘best friend,’ even when used in a loving way, can lead other children to feel excluded […] which can ultimately lead to the formation of ‘cliques’ and ‘outsiders,'” the letter was quoted as saying.

The coercive assimilation of any sort of outsider or “other” is a primary objective of cultural Marxists. We are not to form voluntary associations based on similarities. Equality as understood by progressives means no one is more similar than anyone else — unless of course you are an “other” yourself, in which case you are encouraged to exclude hated members of the core population.

In utopia, there will be no best friends or any other kind of friend, other than Big Brother.